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Answer by Dubai-guy for Why don't any of the gas giants have moons of Earth's...

I think it is possible if you look at Ganymede it is bigger than Mercury but however if you know about other planetary systems there are gas giants much bigger than Jupiter. It is very possible for a...

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Answer by Rory Alsop for Why don't any of the gas giants have moons of...

I don't think your first paragraph around ice and rock has anything to do with the question on whether gas giants should have Earth-sized moons.I will try to find the two references I got this from...

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Why don't any of the gas giants have moons of Earth's mass (or greater) that...

Now, we know that the composition of the outer planets tend to contain a much higher ratio of ice over rock. [1] So the lack of Earth-like moons around the outer planets that this could be an artifact...

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